Radeon HD 5550 vs GeForce GTS 240 OEM
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5550 |
| 81 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTS 240 OEM . |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider GeForce GTS 240 OEM |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
| PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor |
No clear winner declared
We have no data to declare a winner at this time.
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 5550 | | GeForce GTS 240 OEM | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Redwood (Redwood PRO2) | vs | G92B (G92-240-B1) |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 55 nm |
| Die Size | 104 mm² | vs | 260 mm² |
| Transistors | 627 million | vs | 754 million |
| Shaders | 320 | vs | 112 |
| Compute Units | 4 | vs | 7 |
| Core clock | 550 MHz | vs | 675 MHz |
| ROPs | 8 | vs | 16 |
| TMUs | 16 | vs | 56 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 5550 | | GeForce GTS 240 OEM | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR3 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | 800 MHz
3200 MHz effective | vs | 1100 MHz
2200 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 512 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 5550 | | GeForce GTS 240 OEM | |
|---|
| TDP | 39 watts | vs | 120 watts |
| Release Date | 9 Feb 2010 | vs | 1 Jul 2009 |
Radeon HD 5550
4.40 GP/s
GeForce GTS 240 OEM
10.80 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 5550
8.80 GT/s
GeForce GTS 240 OEM
37.80 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 5550
51.20 GB/s
GeForce GTS 240 OEM
70.40 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 5550
352.00 GFLOPs
GeForce GTS 240 OEM
362.90 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better